Artist Invites Public to Take an Alternative Look at Cardiff
Date uploaded: March 19, 2009
Museum of the Moment is the latest work by
As you walk, listen and regard your surroundings, voices will emerge, inviting you to become a stranger in the city and to chance upon an ordinary yet fantastic world....perhaps the city is not just made up of buildings, maybe it’s a collection of stories, connections, meetings, exchanges; people’s lives interwoven in time.
The Museum of the Moment is a museum of a moment, a place in time on the brink of change.
Jennie says: “The Museum of the Moment will feel like putting on a cloak of audibility. Once you are wearing it you will be able to tune into the city. Its unfolding life in front of you becomes the museum’s collection and as you walk you begin to look again; that which previously seemed ordinary is transformed into a fascinating, beautiful world.”
“I hope the walk will make people look at the city in a different way. Perhaps the city is not just made up of buildings; maybe it’s a collection of stories, connections, meetings… exchanges between people’s lives interwoven in time.
The voices direct your view, pointing out what you should notice as you drift through the arcades… the detail over a door, a pattern, the light, a feeling. Walkers are invited to physically navigate a vast archive of conversations in relation to the geography of the city.”
Commissioned by Safle as part of the St David’s 2 Public Art Programme, Museum of the Moment is part of ‘The Arcades Project: a 3D Documentary’, a series of projects exploring
Museum of the Moment runs from 3rd April to 3rd May (closed Mondays) from 11am to 5.30pm (last issue at
4.30pm). Pick up and drop off your headphones at the Museum of the Moment booth in the Tourist Information
Centre on the ground floor of